Category: #achurchforourdaughters

“A static Church is a museum church,” Pope Francis told students from Catholic universities in North, South, and Central America and the Caribbean as he and some of their student representatives conversed via YouTube on February 24 as hundreds of us listened in. When we go to a museum, he continued, we knock on a…
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Merry Christmas to you and your family: your family of origin and your chosen families as well. If it seems trite to focus on family at Christmas, being in a loving community is the essence of the message of Jesus. I have been moved by a post by Jacob Kohlhaas, an associate professor of moral…
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As the young, lithe, graceful and seemingly grace-filled dancers circled, held hands, bent and raised and swayed their bodies, individually and communally lifted their arms and pranced their joy or crumbled and undulated their despair, ancient tunes and plaintive songs, Sephardic Judeo-Spanish “Ladino” phrases and rhythms and rousing and mournful solo violin and Ashkenazi klezmer…
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As soon as I saw the title Crossroads, I knew this was an exhibit I had to see. We are at so many “crossroads” now: locally, nationally, internationally – in providing healthcare, aid, protection, political, social, and moral actions – in sorting out who we are and how we relate to each other and our…
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The beauty in this is beyond words, and yet words they are. Excerpts of a poem by Eliza Gonzalez: ***                         Hot mornings. Hot apple tea, honeyed.                         The mountains a fist knuckled on the horizon.                         Dust is coming, dust is not yet here. ***                         — Examples of what, I do not know.…
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View Post You probably know the source of many of the misguided, nasty, misogynistic stories about Mary Magdalene and of the mostly, if not exclusively, men with agendas who propagated them. The main impetus for them came primarily from one short paragraph in the New Testament describing Jesus’ having to cast out seven demons from…
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[Editor’s Note: This post is the fourth and final installation in our weekly Black History Month series, which have appeared on Thursdays in February in addition to our normal Tuesday and Saturday blogs.] In the context of Black History Month, we want to talk about the experiences of African-descendant Latinas. This time we want to…
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How could we ignore the current kerfuffle about Dr. Jill Biden’s use of “Dr.,” which was prompted by a Wall Street Journal Op-ed by Joseph Epstein last weekend?  For 45 years, WOC has worked for priestly ministry by women to be recognized, validated, honored. What Mr. Epstein has done to Dr. Biden is done to…
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Oh dear.  Another year.  Where and how to end the old?  Where and how to begin the new? What more can we possibly say?  What more can we possibly do? I know in my heart the answer is “Plenty!  So get moving!”  I ask, therefore, that the push/pull of Carlo Carretto’s “Letter” below resonate with…
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The headline in the November 14, 2019 National Catholic Reporter flashed the latest news: Abortion preeminent issue, global warming not urgent, say bishops. Despite so very much to choose from, the declaration that climate change is not urgent and that abortion must take priority particularly fired my outrage. I have to say what young environmental…
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